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Great Depression and What it Was Like to Be a Teenager

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

Revenge and Jealousy Featured in Othello by William Shakespeare

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

Colonization and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

varied character base to symbolize these developments. Prosperos relationship with his two servants, Ariel and Caliban, is partic...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, 'The Minister's Black Veil,' 'The Birth Mark,' and 'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment'

corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...

Characterizations in Candide by Voltaire As Representative of Pessimism and Optimism

driven by purer qualities. In "Candide" the young protagonist Candide undertakes a series of adventures in which he encount...

Satire in Hard Times

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Inner Human Qualities' Representations

weak compared to the others and his struggle to retain orderliness proves difficult. Similarly, order and democracy within the hum...

'The Sculptor's Funeral' by Willa Cather

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

'The Story of An Hour' by Kate Chopin from a Formalist Perspective

women at the time, including women writers such as Chopin (Levy 242). Structure The structure of Chopins short story "The Story o...

Summary of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

to become an optometrist. He falls in love with the daughter of the schools owner, Valencia. However, he soon has a break down bec...

External v. Internal Characterization in Creative Writing

looking at the world through the narrow slats of a locker. Chris forced himself to look at the man standing in the next cell, the ...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Boundaries and Limitations

the irony of the Congo River, which is described as the antithesis of the Thames, which is the location from which Marlow tells th...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the Theme of Illusion

that his old manager would have given him a promotion. Now, in all honesty, we do not know that Frank would have promoted Willy at...

Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff and Characterization

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film Compared

Dashwood) and director Lee were steadfastly committed to presenting a screen adaptation that was faithful to the novel, and with a...

Ian McEwan's Atonement

a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no ...

Film and Novel Versions of The Green Mile

of just a few prisoners, including John Coffey. Edgecombes reflections, though, address some major themes, including his own effo...

Wise Fool in Shakespeare

discussing how the character of Enobarbus fits with these definitions, presenting us with the fool of "Antony and Cleopatra." Fo...

Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud

constantly referenced through the mourning process. In contrast, melancholia often occurs after such a difficult and unsuccessful...

Overview of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

the townspeople, although they dont agree with him being Tom Robinsons legal counsel, respect his integrity and honesty. He repre...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

in this film provides a means of relating the voyage that takes place without actually showing scene after scene of constant motio...

Medea by Euripides and the Barbarian's Role

In 5 pages this paper discusses the barbarian's role in the characterization of Medea in this analysis of the classic tragedy by E...

Rhetoric in Caucasia

In a paper consisting of eight pages the ways in which rhetoric is used by the authors in Caucasia are discussed particularly in t...

Characterization in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

story. To be sure, Melville possessed a definite sense of the dramatic, which can be witnessed merely by engaging in the rhetoric...

Updike, Hawthorne, and de Maupassant Characterizations

In a paper consisting of six pages these character driven short stories Updike's 'A and P,' Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' and...

A Character Study of Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...

Alice Munro's Hired Girl

In five pages Munro's book is summarized in a discussion of its setting, theme, plot, and characterization. There are no other so...

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God and the Character of Janie Crawford

In 9 pages the complexities of Janie Crawford's characterization are examined in this analysis of Their Eyes Are Watching God by Z...

Self Portrait of Henry James in The Portrait of a Lady

In ten pages this report discusses how the characterizations within the novel The Portrait of a Lady actually represents a portrai...

Comparing Salinger's Catcher with Lee's Mockingbird

This essay contrasts and compares J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye with Harper Lee's account of a Southern c...